WIHS Students Win in Mock JETS and Robotic Competition
Members of West Iredell High School's winning Robotic’s team
pose with their Mock JETS and Robotic Competition trophies at
Mitchell Community College. Shown, first row from left, are
Miranda Lewis, Monique Parsons and Alicia Privette. Second row,
Jay Hutton, Jeremy Whitehead, Arturo Ramos and Aaron Bailey.
Third row, Michael Vestal, Nathan Moore and Almurry Connor.
A team of students from West
Iredell High School emerged vic
torious with a first place finish in
the college’s inaugural Mock JETS
(Junior Engineering Technology
Society) and Robotic Competition
held recently at Mitchell
Community College.
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Jennifer Bailey, left and Caroline Rumburg right, practice with
Matt Alkire. The group is a team of “distracters” from Lake Norman
High School, who work with the b$skett>ali team to distract the
opposing team during the game.
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The 10-member team spent
months practicing for die daylong
competition that included a written
exam and a timed competition
between robots built by teams
from West Iredell, North Iredell
High School and Statesville Senior
High School. The West‘Iredell
team was crowned winner after
winning a run-off competition
between its robot and the one from
Statesville Senior Higft School.
The event, which is designed to
promote engineering as a career
choice among underrepresented
high school student populations,
was made possible through an
$80,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation. As part of the
competition, teams from each of
the participating high schools had
to build their own robots using a
kit purchased with the grant
money. During the actual event,
each team had to manipulate its
robot during a contest against
another team’s robot to see which
robot could put the most ping-pong
balls into a basket.
The robotic competition was an
opportunity for the students to test
their engineering skills, and the
day was not without problems for
the fledgling engineers. “We had
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some problems/’ said West Iredell
junior Alisha Prevette as she and
fellow teammate Michael Vestal
examined their robot following
one round of competition, ‘ but we
won the first round 3 to 0.”
In March, teams from the three
schools will travel to UNC
Charlotte for a regional competi
tion.
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